Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India

By: Avishek Ray and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan and Usha Raman and Martin Web and Neha Gupta and Sai Amulya Komarraju and Anuja Premika and Riad Azam and Farhat Salim and Pranavesh Subramanian

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Synopsis: The book examines the social and cultural role of selfies in India. It looks at how the selfie, unlike the photograph, which was a gesture towards an external reality, remains intimately self-referential, yet reconfigures social ordering, identity formation, agency, and spaces in curious ways. This volume approaches questions about the construction and performance of the self through the digital selfie and uses this situated, contextualized, and culturally specific phenomenon as a site to explore the themes of self-making, place-making, gender, subjectivity, and power. Highlighting the specific contexts of production, the authors examine the array of self-expressive capabilities realized in a multitude of uses of the selfie that simultaneously reconfigure the self, the space, and the world. An important study of visual social media culture, the volume will be useful for interpreting everyday media experiences and will be of interest to students and researchers of image studies, visual studies, photography studies, visual culture, media studies, culture studies, cultural anthropology, digital humanities, popular culture, sociology of technology, and South Asian studies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 134 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781003847373
Related ISBNs:: 9781032694726, 9781032694788, 9781032694764
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/06/24
Copyrighted By:: Avishek Ray, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, Usha Raman, Martin Webb, Neha Gupta, Sai Amulya Komarraju, Anuja Premika, Riad Azam, Farhat Salim, and Pranavesh Subramanian
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.